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      By Rangel                                       H.B. No. 3356

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the payment of funds in support of the Early High

 1-3     School Graduation Scholarship Program.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 56.207(a), Education Code, as added by

 1-6     Chapter 260, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995, is amended to read

 1-7     as follows:

 1-8           (a)  [On receipt of a report from an eligible institution of

 1-9     higher education under Section 56.206(c), the coordinating board

1-10     shall distribute to the institution the amount of the state tuition

1-11     credit applied by the institution.]

1-12           [(b)]  At least once a year the coordinating board shall

1-13     submit a report to the commissioner of education that includes:

1-14                 (1)  the name of each student who used state tuition

1-15     credit under this subchapter during the period covered by the

1-16     report;

1-17                 (2)  the school district from which each student

1-18     graduated from high school; and

1-19                 (3)  the amount of the state tuition credit used by

1-20     each student during the period covered by the report.

1-21           (b) [(c)]  On receipt of the report from the coordinating

1-22     board under Subsection (a) [(b)], the commissioner shall transfer

1-23     to the coordinating board, from funds appropriated for the

1-24     Foundation School Program, an amount sufficient to pay each

 2-1     institution of higher education eligible under Section 56.206(c) to

 2-2     receive reimbursement for the state tuition credit applied by the

 2-3     institution [reimburse the coordinating board for amounts disbursed

 2-4     in payment of state tuition credits] during the period covered by

 2-5     the report.

 2-6           (c)  On receipt of the funds provided under subsection (b) of

 2-7     this section, the coordinating board shall distribute the funds to

 2-8     each eligible institution.

 2-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.